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SciRPUS Tabernaemontani, Gmel. [ = S. glaucus, >S'm.] 

 (name confirmed by Arthur Bennett). — Mud at bottom of 

 shallow water at margin of loch, 8 feet above sea-level, 

 Loch of Grsemeshall, Holm, Mainland, 25th August 1916, 

 H. H. Johnston. Native. Common in loch. Plants in 

 flower. Stems 3-5 feet high. Flowers proterogynous, 

 the mature anthers being exserted from the glumes after 

 the stigmas have withered in the same flowers. Stigmas 2. 

 Confirms Dr. Gillies's record of this species from Orkne}^ 

 in "Journ. Bot.," No. xiii, January 1864, p. 16, and the 

 late Mr. Magnus Spence's record of it from the Loch of 

 Grsemeshall, in his "Flora Orcadensis," p. 81 (1914); and 

 removes "[111; errors?]," from the "supposed errors" in 

 Watson, "Top. Bot.," ed. ii, p. 440 (1883). See "Scot. 

 Nat," No. ii, new series, October 1883, p. 73. 



Carex paniculata, Linn., form, simplicior, Anders. 

 (1846) [=var. b. simplex, Gray, "Nat. Arr. Brit. PI.," p. 46 

 (1821)] (fide Arthur Bennett), growing together with the 

 type of the species C. paniculata, Linn, (name confirmed 

 by Arthur Bennett), in a marsh, 130 feet above sea-level, 

 Dee of Durkadale, Birsay, Mainland, 25th July 1919, H. H. 

 Johnston. Native. Rare. Stem triangular with flat 

 sides in the form simplicior, Aoide7\^., and triangular 

 with one side flat and the other two sides sligldly convex 

 in the type of the species, and in both the form and type 

 the leaves are green and channelled. This form or variety 

 of C. paniculata, Linn., is a new record for H. C. Watson's 

 county No. Ill Orkney. Mr. John Spence, Overabist, 

 Birsay, showed me the station at the Dee of Durkadale 

 for these two plants. 



Carex vulgaris. Fries, var. c. melaena (Wimm.) 

 [ = C. GooDENOwii, Gay, var. c. melaena {Wim.m..'] {fide 

 Arthur Bennett, who writes, " Apparently the variety 

 melaena "). — Wet burnside, 240 feet above sea-level, Sowa 

 Dee, Stromness, Mainland, 15th July 1913, H. H. Johnston. 

 Native A new record for this variety for H. C. Watson's 

 county No. Ill Orkney. 



Carex rigida. Good, (fide Arthur Bennett). — Hillside, 

 three-fourths way up in a greenish stripe, north-east side 

 of Ward Hill, Hoy, 18th August 1881, W. A. Irvine 

 Fortescue. Native. Confirms Robert Heddle's record of 



